Tian Zhongshou is not stupid.

His methods were used by Tian Dan in Jimo, Chen Shi in Daze Township, and the Second Emperor Huiqin of the Great Song Dynasty.

The difference is that Tian Zhongshou, Tian Dan, and Chen Shi really didn't believe it, but Emperor Song really believed it.

Tian Zhongshou actually understood that there were many people in the city who did not believe it, and even the nobles also had a lot of unbelievers.

But he understands that if Jimo City wants to defend it, the people can't rely on it.

Because the premise of this kind of thing is whether you want to keep it or not.

If you want to keep it, there will be people who will find excuses and reasons to believe these things, and people will always want to believe what they want to believe.

If you don't want to keep it, you will feel that asking God to make such a thing a thing is a joke at all.

Jimo City wants to defend, and the backbone it relies on is the people who want to defend, if it spends energy to organize and plan those who don't want to defend at all, it is meaningless.

He knew it was fake, but he also knew that many people who knew it was fake would trick themselves into believing it was true in desperation.

The Mo family does not engage in massacres, but just allows the nobles to fend for themselves and not to be silverfish, but this is actually more terrible than death for the nobles.

Because at this time, the world and the world, there is only Kyushu, and there is nowhere to escape from the soft packing.

Just like the captured King of Chu was exiled overseas, in the eyes of the nobles, it was worse than death, although their ancestors did this, but didn't the ancestors overcome the thorns and thorns just to make future generations less bitter? How could they be willing to feel it again?

Since Tian Zhongshou is not stupid, he naturally will not choose to go out of the city to fight, and can only hope to defend to the death, waiting for the army from Linzi and other places to come to help.

In order to defend it, on the second day after he asked the gods, he pretended to be an envoy of the gods and ordered him to come and order the city to begin training personnel.

In order to encourage everyone to have the courage to defend the city, Tian Zhongshou let his concubines be incorporated into the female dependents in the city and be responsible for cooking.

His wife, together with the rest of the noble wives, was made up and lived together in the city, so as to stabilize people's hearts and not let the nobles flee.

The private soldiers and slaves of the family were all incorporated into the troops defending the city.

Tian Zhongshou divided the men in the city into three parts, and once the Mo family attacked, all the men from the age of fifteen to fifty-five had to participate in the defense of the city.

The three people take turns resting.

Tian Zhongshou also set an example, personally carrying the soil and stones, taking out the family's belongings and piling them up at the head of the city, as long as he bravely killed the enemy, he would be rewarded.

When eating, although it is not said that he eats with the people.

All this is to keep Jimo, to keep Tian Zhongshou's family and everything his family enjoys.

However, the public did not buy it.

Many of those who were conscripted to dig in the earth began to circulate some songs, and although a few were executed, the spread of such songs did not stop.

Jimo City urgently built a city wall, but the people who carried the soil were not confident that this rammed earth city wall could prevent the Mo family's copper cannons and the tactics of digging holes and burying explosives.

Moreover, the weapons in the city are not complete, and at most a few thousand people can be trained, and the rest can only take some rudimentary weapons - under the increasing price of copper in the previous twenty years, unless some elite troops of the Qi State are still using copper weapons, the conscription of peasant soldiers can only issue some cast iron spears bought from Sishang, which are cheap, and do not even have the process of annealing, which is available in agricultural tools.

It's not up to standard to make farm tools, and if it's a weapon, it's really bad.

Moreover, the city defense system of Jimo City is still old-style, and the inner city and the outer city cannot support each other, which is different from the new fortresses newly built by the Mo family in Jiaozhou Bay.

The old-style city defense, the inner city is the inner city, the outer city is the outer city, and the four city walls are broken in one place, then the outer city is broken, only the inner city remains, and the army is always a line.

The new city defense is a horn to each other, and some important fortresses and fortresses also have inner cities, but they are double fortresses, and the firearms inside can support and suppress the outside, and the troops are always deployed on the plane.

Even if the people who temporarily repaired the city did not know these problems, they also knew that the Mo family's means of attacking the city did not rely on ants, but on bombing, digging, and exploding.

Even Tian Zhongshou understood that even Mo City might not be qualified to be attacked by the Mo family now.

But he didn't have a choice, the matter of eating the king, the matter of loyalty to the king, and he is also a member of the Tian family, and the rise and fall of honor and disgrace are closely related.

There is no other way but to defend it.

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It was not the same as what Tian Zhongshou thought, and the Xie Xuan army that landed in Jiaozhou Bay did not attack Jimo.

After a short period of repair, the forces of the two divisions did not march to Jimo in the northeast, but quickly turned to the west and attacked Zhucheng.

There was no field army in Jimo, and the field standing army of Jimo, one of the four capitals, was concentrated on the front line of Zhucheng to confront the Mo family's army in Jucheng.

The distance between the two cities of Zhucheng and Gaomi is not far away. Further northeast is Jimo.

Jimo's field standing army is in Zhucheng, which means that Jimo has no ability to capture Jiaozhou Bay, which the Mo family has operated for a long time, and even has the ability to send troops to fight in the field, let alone capture the fortress.

Temporarily conscripted citizen peasants and soldiers could defend the city under strict orders, but they could not attack the city, which the Mo family had known for a long time.

As early as the Mozi era, when the Mo family defended the city, they also emphasized sneaking out of the city and counterattacking when the siege was not smooth.

However, Mozi trained the soldiers of the city gate, training professional sword and shield elites, rather than relying on the citizens and peasants who were temporarily recruited in the city.

With the city walls as a cage, the peasants and citizens were able to observe some discipline.

If you go out of the city to fight, it will be difficult to form an army at all, and you may disperse if you rush out.

The understanding of the Mohist high-level on war is in the same vein as suitable, or most of the officers grew up under the appropriate set of doctrines.

The Qi country they saw was not the Qi country with a radius of thousands of miles and one hundred and twenty cities.

The Qi State in their eyes is just the Qi State guarded by a field mobile corps of 70,000 people.

If this field army is wiped out, then the one hundred and twenty cities of Qi will be like a girl who has taken off her clothes and is defenseless in the face of her boyfriend.

As long as the field army of the Qi State is destroyed, then the Mo family will win the victory of this battle against Mexico among the princes, even if Han, Qin, and Zhao still have troops, it will be useless.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the task of these two divisions was to cooperate with the Liberation Army in the direction of Jucheng, capture Zhucheng, encircle the 7,000 field elites and 20,000 peasant soldiers who confronted Zhucheng, and eat up the field forces of Qi State little by little.

Once these people are eliminated, east of Linzi, the Qi State will not be able to take out a field army.

There are many cities east of Linzi, at least more than thirty, and each city can gather hundreds of armor soldiers, but it is useless.

It is difficult to assemble, and it is impossible to attack at all when it is scattered in various cities.

The forces that cannot attack or fight in the field are only the forces on paper.

It is dead, not alive, and it can be ignored.

The two divisions in Jiaozhou Bay divided their troops into a brigade to feint Gaomi, while the main force marched rapidly towards Weishui, intending to block the retreat of the Qi army in the direction of Zhucheng.

The Qi army in the direction of Zhucheng had 7,000 standing troops, as well as 20,000 peasant soldiers newly recruited because of the Mo family's attack on Chu, a total of nearly 30,000 people.

After the Qi-Mo War, the Mo family seized Jucheng, which made the border between Qi and Mo quite unfavorable to the Qi State.

The eastern line of the Great Wall of Qi State, relying on the sea and Yimeng Mountain, when Jucheng belonged to Qi State, Qi State had a great advantage in defense.

If the Mo family wants to attack from the eastern front, they must go to Yimeng Mountain and capture Jucheng, and then they can go straight to Linzi with Pingchuan.

However, after the cession of Jucheng, the eastern front of the Great Wall of Qi was under the control of the Mo family, and the Yimeng Mountains were also under the control of the Mo family, and the Qi State was on the defensive.

The Mo family can attack if they want to, and they can defend if they want to.

If the Qi State wants to attack, it must first capture Jucheng, climb over Yishan, and then enter the East China Sea and Langya of the Mo family, and continue to the south to threaten the flank of the Mo family.

The terrain is narrow, and it is not easy to replenish.

If the Qi State took the initiative to attack on the eastern front of the Qi State, either the Zhou Division would win the Mo family's sailors, and replicate the miracle of the Qi-Wu naval battle to control the offshore supplies.

Otherwise, they can only rely on Yimeng Mountain for supplies, and then capture Jucheng, Langya, and Lanling, and run for hundreds of miles, so that they may threaten the core area of the Mo family.

It is impossible for the sailors of the Qi State to win the sailors of the Mo family, so in fact, if the Qi State takes the initiative to attack on the eastern front, it can only cross the Yimeng Mountain and take the road of Jucheng, Langya, and Lanling.

And this road ...... The crisis is fraught.

One is that it is the inner line of the Mo family, and the Mo family can mobilize troops to use the advantage of the inner line to break through, and it is not the core area of the Mo family, the core area of the Mo family is in Pengcheng, Peiyi, and Huaibei hundreds of miles away.

Second, once the supply is cut off, the Qi army attacking on the eastern front is likely to be wiped out between Langya and Jucheng.

But the reverse is different.

If the Mo family attacked from the eastern front, the eastern section of the Great Wall of Qi was controlled by the Mo family, and the Mo family obtained Yimeng Mountain and Jucheng in the battle of Qi and Mo, and gave up the layout of southwest Qi in advance, so that if the Mo family attacked, they could use Jucheng as a forward base.

To the east of Jucheng, it is Zhucheng, Gaomi, and Jimo. These three cities are here, and Jiaodong can be determined.

To the northwest of Jucheng, it is the original area of Weiping, all the way to Linzi, there is no mountain, no water, and it has nothing to do.

Weishui originates in the Yimeng Mountains, from the Bohai Sea into the sea, the Mojia northward can rely on Weishui to transport supplies and go downstream.

In the dispute between Chu and Han in later generations, Han Xin decided on the battle of Weishui, which was determined by the topography: if Weishui is obtained, Jiaodong can be determined and Linzi can be attacked.

However, for the southward side, Jiaodong, Weishui, Jucheng, and Yimeng can only play the role of a flank at most, and cannot become the main force.

In the dispute between Chu and Han, the Han army violated the alliance of the chasm and invaded Sishang along the present-day Han and Song lands; King Han Xin and others of Qi also outflanked Sishang Pengcheng from the Eastern Front.

If Han and Song did not gather the main force, even the Marquis of Huaiyin would not dare to go straight to Pengcheng from Qi along the East China Sea, because that was the road to death.

Such a situation makes the current situation facing Qi extremely embarrassing.

If the Mo family is aggressive, it must be the party that takes the initiative to attack, and the Marquis of Qi understands this truth since the Battle of Qi and Mo.

So an embarrassing situation arises.

The State of Qi did not send its main force to Daliang, Southwest Qi, and Jishui to cooperate with the Han, Wei, and Wei armies, and could not attack the Song Disi, and it was impossible to mobilize the main field force of the Mo family, and it was impossible to attack from the eastern front line of Jucheng and Langya.

And the strength of the Qi State is not enough to attack on two fronts, and the alliance of the princes is not enough to attack on two fronts, so the Qi State is not more garrisons in the direction of Zhucheng, nor is there less.

There are too many garrisons, so it should be the strategy of the main force fighting a decisive battle in the Song Dynasty and outflanking Jucheng Lanling, but the troops will inevitably be insufficient in the direction of the main attack. The main attack direction is insufficient, and the flank troops rush to advance, which is to send them to death, and once they are cut off from retreat, the whole army will be annihilated.

There were insufficient forces in the direction of the main attack, and the forces on the flanks were useless.

There are fewer garrisons, the Mo family is the main attacking party, the Yimeng Mountain and the Great Wall defense line are occupied by the Mo family, and the Qi country is guarding in the plain, and I am afraid that it will not be able to hold it.